Toontown For Mac!!!!!!!!

[Prof. Graham Soursnooker]

Woohoo!!!!!

One day after I changed my tagline on my profile to beg for TT on my Mac Disney granted my wish.

According to the newest e-mail newsletter, in the coming soon section, Toontown will soon be Mac compatible. To those of you still complicit on supporting William Gates' quest for world domination and still satisfied with constant crashes, perpetual reboots, blue-screens of death, and slower-than-should-be-allowed CPU clock speeds, this news is nothing special.

But to die-hard Mac snobs like myself this is the equivilent of an early X-mas!!

[Zip Galaxy]

Theres Only One Word To Say Here...

oblivion!!

[Midnite Purr]

That's so hot!!! Now my niece can play at her own house and I can give her my toon Flaming Heart...I'm dancing here..

[::Quick::]

Waste of time, could have been spent making new features. Toontown is a childrens game and not many kids use Macs.

[PennySparkleface]

I hear that way too much, that TT is a children's game. Yes it was intended for children...Raise your hand if you are an adult who plays TT!

*PennySparkleface raises her hand*

Sorry, not staying on the point here. I think it's a great oppurtunity for those people who own Macs, they can enjoy what we have been enjoying for so long!

[Good ol' Sandy]

As an preteen Mac programmer, I'd like to give Toontown plenty of cheers for doing this. Mac programming GUIs are so much better than Windows GUIs, so it will make it much easier to switch from programming to toontown, rather than rebooting into bootcamp everytime I want to switch from Mac programming to Toontown. Hurrah for toontown programmers! I know Macs are fun to program on, so I hope you realize that too!
Good ol' Sandy

[Kit T. Kat]

i want a mac computer

for toontown and gameing and web site construction and other junk

too bad the computers arent like gateway's convertable
the laptop with a touch screen, but i want a laptop like gateway's but it accucally works (touch screen dosent die all the time)

[AwlAmericanDawg]

Also (IMO) Macs are a little more easier for kids to use than Windows XP (no offence) Plus I think it wouldnt lag as much too.

[Prof. Graham Soursnooker]

Originally Posted by ::Quick::

Waste of time, could have been spent making new features. Toontown is a childrens game and not many kids use Macs.

Actually this isn't true. Mac has taken great strides to get Macs into schools. As a result the proportion of Macs to PCs in school systems is far greater than the proportion of Macs to PCs everywhere else. What this means is that a far greater percentage of kids are using macs than all computer users. Secondly, Macs are FAR more kid friendly and have been designated so by several Parenting Magazines as well as numerous child develpment scholars. Finally, Its not that many kids don't use Macs, its more that many parents don't buy Macs for their kids. In two seperate studies of child consumers, more children between the ages of 6 and 16 said they prefered, and would prefer to own, a Mac over a PC.

Also, you are making a huge assumption in thinking that TT Devs spent an inordinate amount of time getting this ready for us. As recent as Toonfest in August there were no plans by Devs to make TT for Mac. This question was asked in the TownHall meeting and the Devs said no. Some new compatibility feature for mac or windows must have been developed in this time that made it relatively easy for the Devs to make TT compatible for Mac.

[AwlAmericanDawg]

Originally Posted by Prof. Graham Soursnooker

Actually this isn't true. Mac has taken great strides to get Macs into schools. As a result the proportion of Macs to PCs in school systems is far greater than the proportion of Macs to PCs everywhere else. What this means is that a far greater percentage of kids are using macs than all computer users. Secondly, Macs are FAR more kid friendly and have been designated so by several Parenting Magazines as well as numerous child develpment scholars. Finally, Its not that many kids don't use Macs, its more that many parents don't buy Macs for their kids. In two seperate studies of child consumers, more children between the ages of 6 and 16 said they prefered, and would prefer to own, a Mac over a PC.

Also, you are making a huge assumption in thinking that TT Devs spent an inordinate amount of time getting this ready for us. As recent as Toonfest in August there were no plans by Devs to make TT for Mac. This question was asked in the TownHall meeting and the Devs said no. Some new compatibility feature for mac or windows must have been developed in this time that made it relatively easy for the Devs to make TT compatible for Mac.

True.When I was in Elementary school all they had was Macintoshes (but the verson was like Mac OS 8 or something I dont remember.) They had a lot of programs and stuff to make it Kid Friendlier like Thing thing called "At Ease" or soemthing like that I dont remember and they had a Kid Friendly verson of a desktop for kids back then.(I remember my favroite thing on the mac computer was Kid Pix)

[::Quick::]

Originally Posted by Prof. Graham Soursnooker

Actually this isn't true. Mac has taken great strides to get Macs into schools. As a result the proportion of Macs to PCs in school systems is far greater than the proportion of Macs to PCs everywhere else. What this means is that a far greater percentage of kids are using macs than all computer users. Secondly, Macs are FAR more kid friendly and have been designated so by several Parenting Magazines as well as numerous child develpment scholars. Finally, Its not that many kids don't use Macs, its more that many parents don't buy Macs for their kids. In two seperate studies of child consumers, more children between the ages of 6 and 16 said they prefered, and would prefer to own, a Mac over a PC.

Also, you are making a huge assumption in thinking that TT Devs spent an inordinate amount of time getting this ready for us. As recent as Toonfest in August there were no plans by Devs to make TT for Mac. This question was asked in the TownHall meeting and the Devs said no. Some new compatibility feature for mac or windows must have been developed in this time that made it relatively easy for the Devs to make TT compatible for Mac.

Note that more programs run on Windows. Mac may be Kid Friendly but it lacks features and options.

[sristi]

The first computer I used was a mac in kindergarten. I think mac were more prevalent then, in the early to mid 90s. I wanted a mac bad but oh well...

[AwlAmericanDawg]

Originally Posted by ::Quick::

Note that more programs run on Windows. Mac may be Kid Friendly but it lacks features and options.

Not anymore "Macs do Windows too" Windows may run a lot of programs but now Macintosh technically can run them all.If you download Boot Camp (right now its a beta) You can install a Windows Partition.Thus running Windows on a Macintosh on its own partition on the hard drive without using "Virtual PC" which was kind of an emulator for windows.So... technacally you can run more programs if you have

1.A Mac
2.Download Boot Camp BETA
3.Have your own copy of Windows XP SP2 (any kind)